Saturday, October 20, 2012

A Brief Explanation

I know we said that this blog was going to update sporadically, but nonetheless I feel like I need to explain the lack of an update. :) Both of our jobs are offering overtime right now in copious amounts, and reading Doctor Who is really something that has to happen on our off-hours. So we're a bit busy. Updates will continue to happen, but, um...yeah. That. Sporadically. Thanks for your patience, feel free to read and comment on back entries in the meanwhile!

5 comments:

John and Deeb,My name is Mark Baumgarten and I run a podcast called markwho42's WHOniverse and we are doing a show on The Wilderness Years and Canon in early December. Because of your Doctor Who Project we wanted to know if you would like to be a part of it. You can reach me via Facebook, Tumblr, or Twitter if you are interested. Thank you for your time.markwho42

I've just found this page through a link on doctorwhonews.netIt's interesting to find a blog detailing a person's journey through the New Adventures range. I've read through the entire range myself, over the course of the past couple of years. I'd read a couple back in the 90s when I was a teenager and in 2010, I found my old copy of Nightshade and it spurred me into collecting and reading the range.I found it, as a whole, a tremendous step forward in the Doctor Who legacy and even to this day, despite the continuity issues thrown up in the new era, I consider these novels canon.Now I can read someone else's opinion's about the range! Awesome! And am I right in assuming you're Australian? Even better!

What We're All About

I'm John Seavey, and my personal favorite era of Doctor Who was the Wilderness Years. The series might have been off the air, but it never felt more alive and exciting, creatively. I firmly believe that the series as we see it on the BBC today isn't so much a continuation of the old TV series as it is an outgrowth of the amazing work done by the authors on the books (and later the audios, which were heavily influenced by the books themselves.)

When I said as much to my wife Dee, a big fan of the new series with somewhat limited experience of the books, she decided that she wanted to explore this era with me. So together, we're reading all the way from the roots of the literary era of Doctor Who up through the latest books by luminaries like Stephen Baxter and Michael Moorcock. Feel free to join us on our trip!

Next 5 Books

(Side Trip: The Shadow of the Scourge)
Decalog
Legacy
Theatre of War
All-Consuming Fire
Blood Harvest